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Scouting has come to New York’s private schools, a world known more for couture and expensive co-ops than for cookies and campcraft.

The fact that the group is composed of Scouts and is living out of doors should bring to the fore, subjects for study which are particularly in keeping with the Scout program, such as nature lore, simple astronomy, woodcraft, campcraft, carpentry, gardening, hiking, map-making, swimming and boating; Scout grade test requirements, and some of the Merit Badge work.

Another very large and absorbing part is the Crafts, inclusive of Handcrafts, Woodcraft, Campcraft, and the distinct Scout occupations, such as First Aid, Home Nursing, Gardening, Signalling, and Homemaking, treated in the Girl Scout Handbook.

The topics to be considered either when learning about campcraft or when actually doing it, are briefly: 1.

Beginners in this lore would do well to get a thorough knowledge of campcraft by going about it one step at a time.